Unprecedented Details showing Saturn's Rings
by José Joaquin Galánmartes, enero 31, 2017
We are now on NASA's Cassini "Ring-Grazing" orbits phase, the spacecraft is observing Saturn's dazzling rings of ic...Read More
Two Distinct Types of Martian Bedrock Exposed
by José Joaquin Galánlunes, enero 30, 2017
In this context image is an old degraded crater that has undergone a complex history of burial and erosion. The image shows a surfac...Read More
The Changing Dunes of Wirtz Crater on Mars
by José Joaquin Galánviernes, enero 27, 2017
The large dark feature is a classic Martian sand dune. Most sand on Earth is made from the mineral quartz , which is white and bright...Read More
Direct images of a Four Planet System in Orbit
by José Joaquin Galánviernes, enero 27, 2017
The W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii has obtained this incredible movie of four planets more massive than Jupiter orbiting the young sta...Read More
Beauty of Layered Stratigraphy in Mars
by José Joaquin Galánmartes, enero 24, 2017
The layered bedrock in this image was brought from several kilometers of depth during the formation of this 44 kilometer wide crater ...Read More
First Images of Earth from NOAA’s GOES-16 Satellite
by José Joaquin Galánmartes, enero 24, 2017
Composite color full-disk visible image of the Western Hemisphere was captured from NOAA GOES-16 satellite at 1:07 pm EST on Jan. 15, 2017...Read More
ALMA have started to observe the Sun
by José Joaquin Galánmiércoles, enero 18, 2017
This ALMA image of an enormous sunspot was taken at a wavelength of 1.25 millimetres. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) ALMA have starte...Read More
The exotic Magnetar
by José Joaquin Galánlunes, enero 16, 2017
Magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1 at 16 000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Ara (the Altar) ...Read More
A Burst of Spring on Mars
by José Joaquin Galánviernes, enero 13, 2017
In the winter a layer of carbon dioxide ice (dry ice) covers the north polar sand dunes. In the spring the sublimation of the ice (go...Read More
12 years of a Historic Descent to Titan
by José Joaquin Galánjueves, enero 12, 2017
Huygens. Image Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona It was January 14, 2005 when the Huygens space probe landed on Titan , n...Read More
A collision of galaxies, IRAS 14348-1447, seen by Hubble
by José Joaquin Galánmiércoles, enero 11, 2017
IRAS 14348-1447 Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA What appears as a delicate smudge in deep space is in reality a violent place. The obje...Read More
Mima's Mountain
by José Joaquin Galánmartes, enero 10, 2017
La luna de Saturno Mimas. Crédito: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute Shadows cast across Mimas' defining feature, Herschel...Read More
The Hidden Secrets of Orion’s Clouds
by José Joaquin Galánlunes, enero 09, 2017
Image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. Credit: ESO/VISION survey The new imag...Read More
Mysterious ‘fast radio burst’ FRB 121102 has been identified
by José Joaquin Galánviernes, enero 06, 2017
The University of Cornell and a team of global astronomers have identified the cosmological source of a sporadically repeating millis...Read More
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